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Book: The Wizard's Key by Harriet Darling

Harriet Darling

about this book: "The Wizard's Key" and its sequel, "Adventures in Fyelda" are Middle Grade and Young Adult stories about a fairy named Petulya and her friends and family on their world, Fyelda. The books are separate but "Adventures" includes a summary of "The Wizard's Key."

Petulya is eager to become a wizard, which is normally only possible after training by an actual wizard. But she is impatient and meanders by the wizard Janolo's little house. She knows he has gone to a wizards' convention, so she decides to break into his house and find his magical key that she hopes to use to skip over the training.

When she finds the key, she slips it into her pocket and flees through a portal to another dimension. Unfortunately, with no way of knowing where the portal leads, she finds herself in a world of dragons. In evading several fire-breathing creatures as she flies, she loses the wizard's key.

"Adventures in Fyelda" is a collection of tales that continue the story. Obviously, Petulya has escaped from the dragons, and the wizard Janolo has agreed to train her to become a wizard. So she and her best friend join a class being taught by the wizard, and the seven tales tell about the further adventures of Petulya, her sisters and her friends.